Thursday's Solar Week songs were from Newfoundland and Labrador!
Here is a recent cover of a song about the northern lights originally recorded by famous 1970s Canadian musicians Corey & Trina.
Northern Lights of Labrador by Allison Crowe -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMakVBzlP9A A musical tribute to the Apollo Moon landings and all of the challenges we face every day!
Walk on the Moon by Great Big Sea -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXoalnqD7z4 Before GPS, sailors used the Sun, Moon, and stars to navigate the seas. NASA satellites today use star trackers and sun sensors for attitude control. Here's a song from Canadian musician Alan Doyle about a sailor and his guiding star.
I Am a Sailor by Alan Doyle -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQDzLmUsW38 Thursday afternoon was Dr. Liz MacDonald's online presentation about the Aurorasaurus, so we had some auroral sounds from Jupiter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0XsMIerW3A Friday morning we had a song by The Chromatics, a singing group whose members work at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. This song is full of facts about the Sun!
The Sun Song by The Chromatics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a358QLi4Wgs Just in time for #NASASolarWeek, @NWSSWPC has issued a G2 (Moderate) geomagnetic storm watch for March 23 due to a coronal mass ejection (CME). Friday morning I tweeted some cool space sounds made by waves in the magnetosphere during geomagnetic storms.
During geomagnetic storms, beautiful displays of aurora may be visible at much lower latitudes than normal. Earth's auroras produce a type of radio wave called auroral kilometric radiation (AKR).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0HIsVfSLfc Perhaps the most famous type of wave produced in Earth's magnetosphere is the "dawn chorus" which sounds like a chorus of chirping birds at dawn. Here is an example from the Van Allen Probes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVXw7NNDmTE Whistler mode chorus waves can accelerate radiation belt electrons to relativistic energies, producing enhancements of the Van Allen radiation belts and the "killer" electrons that damage satellites.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suSNye-3tVo I study electromagnetic ion cyclotron (EMIC) waves, which are produced by protons trapped in Earth's magnetic field. Sometimes EMIC waves make chirping sounds like chorus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uB7cw1kT6I Electromagnetic ion cyclotron (EMIC) waves can scatter relativistic "killer electrons" out of the radiation belts so they are lost to the atmosphere. Cycles of radiation belt enhancement and loss are important to space weather.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HCvXO4ph_M I hope that you have had a blast during Solar Week. I sure did! Keep on exploring our amazing solar system!
Space Truckin' by Deep Purple -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NRTX0Hs800